Fred G. Sager was born in August of 1938 and raised in Manhattan. He moved to the Bronx after marrying Catherine Murphy. When the neighborhood began showing signs of an obvious turn for the worse, Fred and Cathy had the foresight to move their family to Great Neck in 1975. They moved into the Town House Apartments on Cuttermill Road, where Fred served as the superintendent of the complex. The Town House Apartments are located next door to the firehouse which had a great impression on the Sager family as it
 eventually lead to four of them joining the fire department.

Fred joined the Vigilant Fire Company in March of 1979 and served his probationary period with his son Fred W. Sager. While he worked at Townhouse he was most often seen milling around the mailbox outside of the Cutter Mill Coffee Shop (aka “Fast Eddies”).

Fred was elected to Sergeant-at-Arms in 1984, served as Trustee in 1988 and 89, and appointed as Treasurer in September of 1991 where he served thru 1994. He was once again elected to Trustee in 1995 and, served in that position until he resigned from that in March of 1999. Fred had a knack for quickly doing mathematics in his head. So quickly, in fact, that he was often referred to as the “Rain Man” after the hit movie
starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman.

Some of Fred Sager’s loves were vacationing at the family’s summer home in Rockaway Beach, rooting for the New York Giants, working on model car and planes, and eating chocolate. He loved anything related to Walt Disney, but there’s no question that Fred’s biggest love was his family. There was nothing he would not do for his wife Cathy and children Fred, Thomas, Laura, and Tara and he was never happier than when he was in the company of his three grandchildren Chelsea, Samantha, and Cody.

Fred G. Sager passed away on August 27, 2000. The members of the Vigilant Fire Company granted him Life Membership in November of 2000.